#students

A blog about pushing past the status quo in how we school our youth. Honest, data-backed, stakeholder-driven, and relentlessly committed to kids.

Austin Stember

Four simple things YOU can do each month to pave the road to college for kids

There’s a growing divide in the United States. Not the one between political parties, though this seems to garner most of our attention...

Austin Stember

Three ways the education system is failing our kids and what we need to do about it

Americans have a belief in our education system as a place of egalitarianism. It may be the single point within our lives where our...

Brooke Myers

Part I: What it takes to pave a path

Jose Montoya* is the kind of kid that can walk into a room, and you just know. You know he’s going to give you some kind of hell just by...

Rachael Hunter

Perception is reality: How we're working to change perceptions and create a new reality in Tulsa

I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of perception—the way people view the world around them and how two people can be looking at...

Tyler White

A teacher's message: 'My students' stories will change your life.'

Over the last three years I have had the pleasure of teaching high school students in North Tulsa at both Central High School and McLain...

Brooke Myers

We're changing Tulsa's story

My students lived lives filled with tragedies and realities that most adults would be traumatized by. For the first semester of my first...